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The ensemble has become as much its own hybrid entity as, say, a pluot.

This is the time to shop for bare-root fruit trees — peach, nectarine, almond, apple, Pluot, pomegranate, fig, grape and more.

Pluot trees fruit along the length of their branches.

“I went to a doctor and was medically diagnosed as ‘smooth as a pluot.’

In the 1980s, fruit breeder Floyd Zaiger created the pluot, crossbreeding plumcots with plums to boost the plum flavor.